Department of Electrical Engineering

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Dr. Sameer Qazi is currently working as HoD & Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology, Pakistan. Prior to joining PAF-KIET he has worked in WorldCALL Broadband Ltd and at PNEC-NUST (as Assistant Professor) and DHA Suffa University (as HoD Electrical Engineering). He has authored over 25 publications in indexed journals and conferences.

Profile:Dr Imran Naseem received his B.E. (Electrical Engineering) degree in 2002 from the NED University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan. He did his M.S. (Electrical Engineering) in 2005 from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), KSA and PhD in 2010 from The University of Western Australia. He did his post doctorate at the Institute for Multi-sensor Processing and Content Analysis, Curtin University of Technology, Australia.

He joined the College of Engineering, KIET, Pakistan in 2011 where he is currently an Associate Professor. He is also an Adjunct Research Fellow at the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at The University of Western Australia. His research interests include pattern classification and machine learning with a special emphasis on biometrics and bioinformatics applications. He has authored several publications in top journals and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing etc. His benchmark work on face recognition has received more than 180 citations in less than four years.

Profile:Husain Parvez received his Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science from National University of Sciences and Technology, Rawalpindi. He received MS and PhD in Electronics and Computer Science from University Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris-6), Paris. Before doing MS and PhD, he worked at the System-on-Chip tools department at Communications Enabling Technologies Islamabad, and at Video Decoder & Optimization department at Streaming Networks Islamabad. He has taught at University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, and at IQRA University, Karachi. He is associated with PAF-KIET since 2012. His current research interests include design and exploration of FPGA architectures and related CAD tools for FPGAs.

Dr. Parvez was the co-principal investigator of two ICTR&D funded projects, each worth 14 million rupees. He is also working on funded projects of mutual interest in collaboration with international partners. He has authored and co-authored 5 publications in high impact journals, and 15 papers in international conferences. He has also authored a book titled “Application-Specific Mesh-based Heterogeneous FPGA Architectures” published by Springer.

Research Interest:Architectures and Tools for Reconfigurable Architectures, FPGA-based System design, Embedded real-time Systems

Assistant Professor

Engr. Kamran Ali KhanBE, (Computer System), NEDUET

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Mr. Kamran Ali Khan has a vast experience in the field of Digital Systems’ Design, Computer Architecture and Computer Networks. He has been into academics for the last 18 years and have extensively contributed in teaching and curriculum design of engineering courses. Mr. Khan is also engaged with Pakistan’s Electronic Media in the capacities of researcher and anchor person. Before joining PAF-KIET he has served in FAST – NUCES, Bahria University and Caltex Oil, Pak, Ltd

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Mr. Tayab has more than 20 years of combined industrial and teaching experience. He is pioneer in bringing AutoIDs and last-mile Supply Chain IT in Pakistan in 1998. Before joining PAFKIET, he has served Autobar as CTO and CEO. He is a member of MS/PhD research committee at SZABIST.

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Mr. Sajjad Hussain did his BE & MS in Electrical Engineering from NED University and Project Management from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He has over 15 years professional experience with renowned organizations like K-Electric, Siemens Pakistan and DHA Cogen Ltd.
He has been associated as Visiting Faculty with higher education institutes since 2004 with NED University, Institute of Business Management (CBM), ZABIST, BIZTEK prior to joining PAF KIET as a full time Faculty member in 2012.

Profile:Mr. Shoaib Idrees has six years of university level teaching experience. His expertise is in fields of Control Engineering, Power Electronics, Instrumentation and Electrical Machines. Before joining PAF-KIET he served in Bahria University and Indus Institute of Higher Education.

Profile:Mr. Mustafa Asgar Ali has vast experience in Communication Industries and has design several projects related to Electronic Communication Systems. He has served as Assistant Professor in NED University and NUST and has developed expertise in teaching in modern Communication subjects.

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Mr. Muhammad Mazher Iqbal has more than 10 years of teaching and industrial experience in the filed of Computer Engineering. He has taught at renowned national universities of Pakistan. He has been associated with PAF-KIET since 2015. He has been actively involved in different research projects funded by national and international bodies at PAF-KIET, He has published 2 ISI indexed journals and 4 national and international conferences.

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Mr. Faizan Jawaid is working as Assistant professor at College of Engineering, PAF- KIET. Before joining PAF-KIET, he served as Junior Engineer – Electrical & Instrumentation in Pharmatec Pakistan Pvt Ltd. He has also been engaged in various industrial automation projects as consultant design engineer. He is also the Patron of KIET Robotics Club at College of Engineering, PAF-KIET.

Profile:Muhammad Arif has over 8 years experience in academics. Currently he is pursuing his Ph.D in Telecommunication from PAF KIET University Pakistan and serves Electrical Engineering Department as Assistant Professor at the same university. He is also associated with the Centre of Excellence in Intelligent Engineering Systems (CEIES), King Abdul-Aziz University, Saudi Arabia. He has two publications in international journals and several papers are in review and in process.

Profile:Mr. Syed Safi Uddin Qadri is working as a Assistant Professor at College of Engineering, PAF- KIET. Before joining PAF-KIET, he served as a Lecturer and before as a Lab Engineer at Hamdard University Karachi. He has more than three years of teaching experience. He is also doing PhD in (Electronics) from PAF-KIET.

Research Interest:Communications, Signal Processing, Image Processing and FPGA-based System design.

Profile:Muhammad Farrukh has teaching experience of more than two years and research experience of three years. He is currently serving as a Lecturer in the College of Engineering. He has supervised eight under graduate projects. He is PAF-IEEE Student Branch Counselor.(On study leave abroad)

Profile:Mr. Waqar Ahmed is Lecturer and Research Assistant at PAF-KIET. He holds a BE in Electronics with specialization in Avionics and MS in Electronics from PAF-KIET. Before joining PAF-KIET he has worked at City Scale & Equipment and Universal UPS as technical support officer.

He has extensively contributed in development and improvement of Electronics Laboratory Experiments. Having enormous experience in design & development of digital system design, he has made significant contribution in two ICTR&D funded research projects.

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Ms. Ayesha has been associated with PAF-KIET since Fall 2015. She was awarded Gold Medal in MS, and Bronze Medal in Bachelors. She has been associated with the research group EDCAS since start of 2016, where her research focus is in the domain of micro-electronics. She has been involved in recent two tape-outs in the past 2 years.
She has 1 publication in IEEE conference (INTELLECT 2017), and 3 in IEEC 2017 conference.

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Miss Alishba has done her graduation from PAF-KIET and currently doing Masters in Signal Processing. She has been associated with PAF-KIET as a Graduate Teaching Fellow for 1.5 years. She has submitted two research journals.

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Miss Nashra is currently doing her MS in Electrical Engineering (Controls) from NUST. She has been working on ICT R&D funded projects in the domain of Power Electronics (DC-DC Converters & MPPT) in her bachelors and currently working in the field of Machine Learning& Pattern Recognition mainly on biometrics applications with several publications as well.